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Monthly Archives: September 2014
More Links For September 2014
Jeff Kaufman wades through conflicting claims about the effectiveness of SAT coaching. And speaking of which: Scott Aaronson endorses Steven Pinker’s critique of the college admissions process, which you might remember from the last links post here. Yet another very … Continue reading
Joint Over- and Underdiagnosis
Today I had several more terrible lectures on ADHD. In one of them, I was informed that America is medicalizing normal childhood mischief and loading anyone who gets worse than a B+ up with Ritalin or amphetamines as part of … Continue reading
[Ozy] A Response to Spandrell
[Content note: Gender, relationships, sexuality. Some sexually explicit content. Discussion without endorsement of various forms of transphobia, homophobia, et cetera. Ozy wishes you to know they wrote this in a very timely manner after Spandrell’s original post and I just … Continue reading
Does Class Warfare Have A Free-Rider Problem?
Here are two comments I’ve gotten on this blog in the past few weeks: Progressivism is under massive selective pressure to actually cause problems because that leads to more power for progressivism. Sasha and Malia Obama will get affirmative action, … Continue reading
Book Review: Singer on Marx
I’m not embarassed for choosing Singer’s Marx: A Very Short Introduction as a jumping-off point for learning more leftist philosophy. I weighed the costs and benefits of reading primary sources versus summaries and commentaries, and decided in favor of the … Continue reading
What The Hell, Hegel?
I’m reading through Marx: A Very Short Introduction, and one of its best features is its focus on Marx’s influence from Hegel. Hegel is really interesting. I should rephrase that. Hegel is famously boring. His books are boring. His ideas … Continue reading
Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable
Today during an otherwise terrible lecture on ADHD I realized something important we get sort of backwards. There’s this stereotype that the Left believes that human characteristics are socially determined, and therefore mutable. And social problems are easy to fix, … Continue reading
Links For September 2014
If he’d posted it here it would have been a Comment Of The Month, but since he posted it on Less Wrong I’m reduced to linking it: Viliam Bur on why Freud is not your strawman of Freud. Last links … Continue reading
Open Thread 4: The Quick And The Thread
1. Big thanks to Bakkot and Alice for adding the script last month that highlights new comments in green and makes this place much more readable. 2. I’ve closed comments on any posts older than one month in order to … Continue reading